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Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feelFri, 09 Dec 2016 10:06:26 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14By: Bronx Boy in NChttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324222
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:57:00 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324222The hotel where O’Neill was born was later the site of the office building where I worked for about a year and a half. There’s a plaque there.

His last words, in Boston: “I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and died in a hotel room.”

]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324193
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:55:06 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324193I was coming up with bupkis
]]>By: RIYankhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324191
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:46:43 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324191Too bad George Gervin didn’t play baseball.
]]>By: RIYankhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324190
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:44:48 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324190“born in longacre square” got me this site, by the way.
]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324189
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:36:47 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324189[8] That was actually the point; no play in particular, though a few certainly stand out.
]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324188
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:34:24 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324188[7] I just laid this one over the middle of the plate for you, huh?
]]>By: RIYankhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324187
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:33:57 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324187So I guess 1897. The Barrett Hotel, which is now a Starbucks.
Not sure about the exact play you have in mind; O’Neill was a pretty gloomy guy in general.
]]>By: RIYankhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324186
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:27:34 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324186It’s Longacre Square (later to become Times Square).
Yesterday’s game was a long day’s journey into night…
]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324185
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:49:30 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324185And Sheridan’s play “The Rivals”, which is what I think that ad is for, gave us the character Mrs. Malaprop, from which we get malapropism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rivals
]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324184
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:33:28 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324184Hmm, across the street is an ad for the Grand Central Palace. First one was built in 1893, second one in 1911, according to Wikipedia.
Blowing up the photo, I can kind of make out “whiskies & champagne”
]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324182
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:07:45 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324182[3] …and?
]]>By: rbjhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324179
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:04:12 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-32417919th Century. Times Square? Broadway? “Lit up”
]]>By: Chyll Willhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324178
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:45:26 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324178[1] That’s what I just told someone else!
]]>By: Alex Belthhttp://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2014/06/03/where-when-game-54/#comment-324176
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:37:01 +0000http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=114954#comment-324176I like that the pharmacist was open all night.
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